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Outside of New York, too, the American Jewish experience was essentially urban. By 1920, New York City’s share of American Jews was 45 percent–its Jewish population was greater than the total populations of most American cities. Chicago and Philadelphia together accounted for 13 percent of American Jewry, and seven other large or midsize ...
Aug 16, 2022 · In coming to America, the "people of the book," as the Jews are sometimes known, also became the people of documents. In letters, contracts, laws and legislation, photographs, temple newsletters, and even advertisements for rye bread, the Jews' triumphs and travails were all recorded, reflected upon, and discussed.
Most of the first Jews to cross the Atlantic traced their origins to the Iberian Peninsula, where what had once been a large and thriving Sephardic Jewish community had come to a catastrophic end with the 1492 expulsion of all Jews from Spain and the mass forced conversion of Portuguese Jews in 1497.
- Pamela S. Nadell
- 2010
7.5: Judaism in America. The contemporary American Jewish community is descended largely from central European Jews who immigrated in the mid-19th century and, particularly, from eastern European Jews who arrived between 1881 and 1924, as well as more recent refugees from, and survivors of, the Holocaust.
Jun 18, 2018 · Jews in America would live in two civilizations, not one. American culture would always be “dominant” and Judaism “subordinate.”. The sociologist Marshall Sklare, following Kaplan, called Judaism in America, particularly Conservative Judaism, an “ethnic church.”. He argued that the tension between religion and ethnicity was built ...
Written by Will Herberg, a Jewish ex-Marxist intellectual, the book argued that America had become a “‘triple melting pot,’ restructured in three great communities with religious labels, defining three great ‘communions’ or ‘faiths.'”. To be an American, according to Herberg, meant defining oneself according to the new ...
